Senior Scrum Master (Remote from EU)
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Job description
We are looking for a Senior Scrum Master to guide and coordinate a cross-functional Agile team, ensuring that delivery objectives are achieved efficiently and in compliance with established governance standards. The selected professional will play a key role in fostering collaboration, maintaining process discipline, and supporting continuous improvement across all delivery phases., * Sprint and Release Delivery: Plan and manage sprints, ensuring scope, timing, and quality objectives are met; proactively identify and remove impediments.
- Ceremony Facilitation: Lead Agile ceremonies with an outcome-driven approach - stand-ups, planning sessions, reviews, and retrospectives.
- Risk and Dependency Management: Act as the primary escalation point for delivery risks, coordinating with technical leads and other stakeholders.
- Progress Monitoring: Maintain transparent tracking and reporting using Jira dashboards, metrics, and KPIs for delivery visibility.
- Agile Discipline: Ensure that backlog refinement, Definition of Done, test coverage, and quality gates are consistently upheld.
- Documentation Management: Create and maintain technical and functional documentation, ensuring full traceability from requirements to releases.
- Governance & Compliance: Verify that all deliverables, test evidence, and release documentation meet internal and regulatory standards.
- Knowledge Management: Keep Confluence and SharePoint spaces organized, up to date, and easily navigable for all stakeholders.
- Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned, document best practices, and integrate them into team workflows.
- Team Coaching: Promote accountability, ownership, and self-organization within the team through mentorship and consistent feedback.
Requirements
Do you have experience in SharePoint?, * Proven experience leading Agile software delivery teams, ideally in SAFe or scaled Agile environments.
- Advanced proficiency with Jira, Confluence, and SharePoint for sprint tracking, backlog management, and documentation control.
- Deep understanding of Scrum and Kanban frameworks, sprint planning, retrospectives, and performance measurement.
- Familiarity with governance frameworks, traceability standards, and audit requirements within regulated environments.
- Strong documentation management skills: version control, approval cycles, and change tracking.
- Experience coordinating across multiple roles - developers, testers, architects, and product owners - to align technical and delivery objectives.
- Knowledge of delivery metrics and reporting methods (burn-down charts, velocity trends, KPI dashboards).
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills with the ability to influence and coach team members at all levels.
- Proactive mindset focused on continuous improvement, quality, and delivery predictability., * Seniority: Senior (5-7+ years of relevant experience).
- Language: English level B2/C1 (mandatory).
- Work setup: 100% remote. Travel: Occasional travel to Brussels may be required.
- Eligibility: Open to EU citizens or professionals residing in the EU with a valid work permit.
- Engagement options: Freelance or Spanish employment contract, depending on the candidate's preference and location.